Improvement in hoops for pails



E. HILL.

Improvement in-H0ops for Pails, 8L0.

.No, 128,310. Patented June 25,1872.'

' semicircular or other shaped cuts a.

PATENT OFFIcE.

EDWARD HILL, OF ORANGE, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN HOOPS FOR FAILS, &c.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 128,310, dated June 25, 1872.

Specification describing a new and useful Improvement in Hoop-Iron for Hooping Pails,

Tubs, &c., invented by EDWARD HILL, of Cr ange, in the county of Franklin and State of Massachusetts.

Figure 1 is a detail view of a piece of hoopiron to which my improvement has been applied. Fig. 2 is a detail vertical section of a pail to which my improved hoop-iron has been applied. Fig. 3 is a detail side view of a portion of the same enlarged. Fig. 4 is a detail sectional View of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate correspondin g parts.

My invention has for its object to furnish a new article of manufacture in the form of hoopiron or hoops for application to pails, tubs, and analogous receptacles; and it consists in constructing hoop-iron with semicircular cuts or tongues pointing alternately in opposite directions, as hereinafter described.

A represents a piece of hoop-iron in which, at a short distance from each edge, are formed The cuts a are formed alternately near each edge, are cut entirely through the hoop-iron, and are so arranged that the free part of the piece partially cut out may point toward the edge near which the cut is made. When the hoop has been made and driven upon the pail or other object the maker, with a hammer and punch, indents the cuts or tongues a/ into the wood, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and v3, so that it will be impossible for the hoop to move, even should the wood shrink and the hoop become loose. Only the cuts a toward the smaller end of the object need be indented, the other cuts being simply intended to prevent the workman from losing time in examining the hoop to see that he is applying it with the cuts a in the right direction.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- As a new article of manufacture, hoop-iron provided with cuts or tongues a/ pointing alternately in opposite directions, as shown and described, for the purpose specified.

EDWARD HILL. Witnesses:

LESLIE MILLER, JOHN A. MACK. 

